Ryo Furue wrote: > Why doesn't KDE source my ~/.bash_profile ? That's a distro-specific issue. Quick-n-dirty fix, is to modify /usr/bin/startkde's shell invocation: #!/bin/bin to #!/bin/bash --login > Then, what about introducing a KDE specific, per-user > initial script, like ~/.kderc ? You mean like ~/.kde/env/ (and ~/kde/shutdown)? :) -- Rex ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.